It sounds not sweeter for the Philippine mango, when Chinese social media cry online to boycott the product in the country amid the ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration over the South China Sea dispute favoring the Philippines.

In the Weibo, renowned social media in China, trends the call to boycott the Philippine fruit that are famous over the Chinese market, following the verdict of International Tribunal on the sea row case.

Slogan said “If you want to eat mango, buy Thailand’s” and “Starve the Filipinos to death”

Some comments were “If you want to eat mango, buy Thailand’s” and “Starve the Filipinos to death” have been widely circulated on the said microblogging site.

Other Chinese netizen said “If you love China, don’t buy Filipino imports” in a comment.

The Chinese government has been vocal to even before and during the proceedings that it will not participate and recognized any decision of the International court, the country believed that the latter has no jurisdiction over the case.

Since the ruling of the case, Filipino social media users, were not without their say, the #CHexit trends online – a combination of the words “China” and “Exit” and coined after the “Brexit” vote in the United Kingdom.

Other Filipino netizens also commented online that the result of the tribunal should be honored and China must scale down its reclamation and invasion activities in the disputed region.

Meanwhile, the incumbent Philippine government spearheaded by President Rodrigo Duterte didn’t yet announced its comment in the issue and instructed the country’s Solicitor General to scrutinize the court’s decision before giving statement, but its Foreign Affairs chief Perfecto Yasay calls for “restraint” and “sobriety”.

The decision said, China breached the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) concerning maritime security and also did not recognize the legality of nine-dash line of the country that served as the basis of the claim.

The case was brought by the administration of then – Philippine President Benigno Aquino in 2013, when China canon water to the Filipino fishermen over the Scarborough Shoal, part of the disputed region, to the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Netherlands.